Editor's note: iReporters all over the globe are showing us what Occupy Wall Street is like in their towns and cities through the Open Story: from the Aleutian Islands to Raleigh, North Carolina; from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Zadar, Croatia. Check out a map of the reports, videos and pictures here.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, which swept across the United States as thousands¬†demanded that government institutions change to help¬†fix a struggling economy, gained a major boost as the world began to come together in solidarity over shared economic frustrations.

But that global push may not end with the one day of solidarity. Some would say it has bolstered the ambitions and confidence of those who began Occupy Wall Street. It was a hint that, with the right support and organization, they can spread the message they've so desperately tried to get across: They want change, and they want it now. And even though the frustrations and complaints may differ from country to country, the theme remains that governments aren't handling economic crises properly.

In the spirit of that solidarity, thousands stepped out to support the frustrations of the unemployed in the U.S. and, in some cases, to share their own grievances.

We're taking a look at scenes from across the world to find out more about the main frustrations being lodged and how the protests are drawing support from each other through the lenses of our reporters and iReporters around the world.

London

The movement gained traction in London especially because of the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.¬†Some Brits,¬†who have not been shy to share their frustrations with their economic situation during riots months earlier, echoed American sentiments that governments need to focus not just on the rich but on the little man.

"Essentially, they are very disappointed by the current economic system," he said. "From my understanding, they feel that governments have done too much to protect companies while doing very little to assist the average citizen."

iReporter Hao Li¬†was also at the London protests and said the activists were mostly young people between 20 to 30 years old. They didn't appear to represent the overall "general population" of London or the United Kingdom. It was more politically active young people rather than those who have suffered from the financial crisis, he said.

Assange's message did echo some of the common messages from Occupy Wall Street, Li told CNN's iReport.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at protests in London, England.

"He did say several times that the current financial system was unsustainable (and) made a few jabs at the greed and evilness of bankers in London who caused people so much harm," Li said.

Kyle Meyr's photos¬† showed signs portraying the banks in the UK as the real looters, referring to the summer riots. But Meyr found that like in New York, there was an apparent lack of cohesion as to what the protests centered around.

"The crowd was amazingly enthusiastic, but you could see that a good number of them were confused about what they had come out to protest. It seemed that a lot of them had mixed agendas and scattered ideas of where these protests should be going," Meyr said. "Some tried aggression and yelling, others handed out fliers, and the rest seemed to just be along for the ride.

"To be completely honest, I cannot decide on one unifying theme of the protest. Most were there to show their hatred for the government bailouts for banks, and others hated the banks themselves, but there were a few that just seemed to dislike wealthy people in general."

Paris

John Sprankle¬†was alongside demonstrators in Paris who were showing solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

He also felt some came out to be part of the movement without really being involved in the cause.

"I also believe the majority of the marchers don't even know what they are marching about and see it more as a party," he said. "In fact, I'd say if anyone can camp put anywhere for six weeks, they are definitely not producing and paying taxes, so they have nothing to protest against."

Rome

At the protests in Rome, things took a particularly violent turn. Firefighters battled a blaze at an Interior Ministry building near Porta San Giovanni, the main gathering site of the Italian protesters taking part in the Occupy movement Saturday.

"'The leaders were holding a sign that said, "PEOPLE OF EUROPE: RISE UP,' " he said.

Katz said the crowd was primarily peaceful and appeared to be normal working-class citizens. They chanted demands in Italian, he said. Generally, the group appeared upbeat "but clearly angry with the EU and Italian officials."

"Their main demands seemed to revolve around the failure of their government and the EU to handle the economic crisis. They protested job cuts and tax increases, as well as the "greedy" big banks and corporations. I could tell they were also upset that the Italian premier, Silvio Berlusconi, had not been voted out of office yesterday."

Katz too saw violence at the protests.

"Further back, there was a group of more violent protestors who lit two cars on fire and smashed the windows of a post office and a bank," he said.

Oslo, Norway

Siri Klemetsaune went to observe the OccupyOslo movement in Norway and said that about 100 people turned out for the protest near Stortinget, the parliamentary building.

Klemetsaune, who said she is unemployed and on welfare, said the turnout was larger than expected.

Demonstrators gather at OccupyOslo in Norway.

"Despite the initial grim sound of OccupyOslo in light of recent events, a fairly major crowd of approximately 100 people gathered outside the governmental building on October the 15th to show their support of the Occupy Wall street movement," Klemetsaune told CNN's iReport. "This in a country in which the entire population might as a matter of fact be a part of the infamous 1%."

Klemetsaune, 29, is "fairly OK" with the government's rule in Norway for now.

"But the future worries me. The system of ruling appears to need a change, before we fall into the trap America has fallen into,"¬†Klemetsaune said. "Now, I‚Äôm not sure how to end this. But let‚Äôs just say that even though we are filthy rich and privileged, we stand by the people of the worlds side. Occupying."

He said there were young and old side-by-side with parents and children, those who were politically active and those who had lost their jobs.

Movement leaders share their message in Copenhagen, Denmark.

"They want money spent on the 99%, and they want to take it not only from the rich but also from the expenses on wars," he said. "I have sympathy with the peacefully minded protesters and their concern for the poor."

Matson said everyday people took turns at the microphone, speaking both in Dutch and English.

Protests also took place in Netherlands, Amsterdam.

"The complaints were as varied as they were poignant," she said. "(There was) a refugee from the Philipines, a student from Amsterdam, older protesters remembering a similiar protests years earlier and young organizers making it clear that change needs to happen for the world to become a safe, cleaner and less corrupt place."

"The people were angry and said what the think about the financial system in Iceland and all over the world," he said. "They want the government to stop helping those that are responsible for the banking crisis while the public gets little help."

Tokyo

Jason Ward,¬†a Los Angeles native visiting Tokyo on a three-week trip, was at a demonstration where he said roughly 300 demonstrators took part in the solidarity movement.

"The crowd was about 80% Japanese and 20% American tourists, with signs in both Japanese and English," he said.

Demonstrators show solidarity with signs in Tokyo, Japan.

"Though there were chants about corporate greed, it was predominantly an anti-nuclear movement. The numbers weren't huge, but the folks I talked to seemed very inspired by what was happening in the U.S."

Taipei, Taiwan

Keith Perron, a radio journalist living and working in East Asia, was with people protesting in Taipei, Taiwan.

"The police presence was not big. Very small, in fact," he said. "After the crowed walked around the Taipei 101, they were let in the Taipei 101 in an orderly fashion, which was very unexpected."

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ajgorm

It is bad enough to know how dumb deregulation was only to now realize how much dumber the people that bought into it from other countrie were knowing what it would do to their inflated economies now we cant sustain it and can not pay up. Globalization and destabalization never rung a bell in their deregulation decision making process of g20 idiots.. uhhhuhhh before hand. History is with me here if you know why we regulated in the first place.

While I agree reasonable regulations need to be in place the pendulum has swung way too far towards over regulation. I'll give you an example. The EPA recently classified hay as a pollutant (yes–dried grass that cows eat). Farmers have to set up "containment zones" to store this atrocious "pollutant." That's one example of hundreds that businesses and organizations are dealing with under Obama's administration. I don't think anyone wants no regulation or oversight, just keep it reasonable.

I completely agree with everything this movement stands for. Reform is what is needed overall of government and the way political and economic policies and laws created by the wealthy and powerful give unfair advantage to the wealthy and powerful. The richest get free taxpayer dollars on the backs of hardworking Americans and effectively pay no taxes while reaping record profits. (tax shelters, tax-free earnings, corporate welfare, hedge funds, etc.) That's how the system was designed, and people are finally catching on after being pushed to the brink. The only correction I have to this story is the movement did not start in NYC. It started in Spain, then Canada, then here.

I didn't see a solution in there anywhere, DJ. My guess is the Occupy idiots will head back to their perants' basements within a couple of months and the only change will be a massive bill for cleanup and police overtime.

A major theme I've noticed is a push to redistribute wealth. There's a serious problem with that–someone's got to be in charge of redistribution. That would be the government. So you go from being a slave to capitalism to a slave to the government. Which one sounds better to you? Name one thing any government's done efficiently besides fabricate redundant jobs and create red tape. Not to mention the obvious point that it's already been tried (USSR) and failed miserably.

Daniel you are kidding me right?
How about every airport, bridge road, highway, hoover dam, niagara falls dam, The st. lawrence seaway, Eleictric rurification in the 40's, Obama's same drive to make jobs while brining the internet to all parts of the famrland and hinterland of American. The list of government accomplishments are endless. You just do not WANT to see that a Government by its people, for its people can work so you make it NOT work. AND that is why the Republicans who also sew this same discord are traitors.

The sheer willful ignorance of conservatives is breathtaking. They'll complain about "redistribution of wealth" at the same time their own ideology has lead to the greatest redistribution of wealth in modern history. (Of course they don't mind redistribution when it means a handful of rich people get richer by gaming the system; it's only bad when it means trying to instill a little bit of fairness and regulation.) They'll criticize "government" at the same time that their entire comfort and prosperity is largely the result of government action in thousands upon thousands of ways. It really starts to sound like wiseguys justifying organized crime by calling everyone who isn't a criminal a "sucker." Too bad for them it's not going to be business as usual any longer.

First I want to clarify that I do not advocate an absence of government. But when government oversteps it's role and takes over private industry (ie, the auto industry) they've gone too far. Private companies have a vested interest in being successful. Yes many of them are in it for profit, but they cannot achieve that profit without providing a better product or service. That's why a market economy thrives and a socialist society fails (they have historically proven to fail–Greece, USSR, etc etc). I'll take a free market economy over a government run economy any day.

Uh, Carlos, Daniel asked about things the government did efficiently. Sure, the government did the things you listed, but with wholesale bureaucracy, cost overruns, headaches and hassles for everyday Americans. And likely special treatment for the well-connected. Daniel's point is well-taken, more government is not a good way to solve our economic problems.

You blind, foolish, idiot ... the Capitalists are the ones who created all the wealth in this country ... and, now, free loading, malcontents, like you, want to redistribute wealth, you did not create, and do not deserve ... and, what's worse, you demand that we end capitalism ...thereby allowing idiots like, to eat the goose that lays the golden eggs !!!

These people are not disorganized or lacking a message. The corporate media wants you to think that because they are part of the problem. Yellow journalism is just as big of a problem as the robber barons and the financial depression.

Ever since Fox appeared on the scene, journalism as the fourth estate has been sileneced. And it is all in the way Fat boy Roger AIles laid in out when he was in the Nixon WHitehouse and they were bitter about having Walter Cronkite being a bigger provider of information about the war than their propaganda machine. And Ailes took the lead on changing corporate media from the back side. And he had the traitor Murdoch to help steer the ship of sh|t. Then they sued to lie in their news programming and that just cemented their drive to the bottom.
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this is not about capitalism or communism. Both are the same broken system, one is a more polished version of the other – This is about a few people, in bed with each other, holding the reigns at all causes to rob the 99.9% of the public of their freedoms, wealth, and well being. Entire system is rigged for this purpose, they take your house, your 401k, your savings, your jobs, and call it capitalism. Capitalism for the taker, it is oppression for the public. We are living in an era of utmost oppression by certain powers make no mistake about it. At no time in the human history there has been this much oppression, corruption, and theft.

"Can we do business with honesty and fairness for everyone? I say YES."

Thousands of years of human history say NO!

That's why it is so important to have real accountability and effective checks & balances. The CEO of Morgan Stanley cannot be trusted and you cannot be trusted either. We are all weak, selfish and insecure. Fighting to ensure honesty and fairness for all is a battle that will never be won but must always be fought.

What's going to be your definition of victory? Will your definition be the same as anyone else in this so-called movement? So far the only demand I've seen is for student loans to be forgiven. There's altruism for you!

BINGO
The internet hs leveraged the exchange of information that the printing press, the pony express, Morse code and the telephone afforded, but all logarithmically off each other. The whole restructuring will take approximately 5 years. That's it.
The Ants ALWAYS win.

Yes i would be possible without the internet. It's happened before in Nazi Germandy. They called themselves sooialist and preached the same class warfare only then it was not the rich, it was the Jews, but the message is the same.

Carlos–I had ants in my house once. I hired an exterminator to kill them all and he told me about a spray I use around the perimeter of the house every year and they never come back. I don't think the ants won. Why do you want to model yourself after a nasty little insect, anyway? Seems kind of pathetic.

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